Saturday, 27 December 2014

ODHAMS PRESS 'POWER COMICS' FIRST ISSUES COVER GALLERY...

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The first two didn't begin life as 'POWER COMICS' - that happened somewhere along the way after they'd started reprinting MARVEL strips, but the next three began their runs with the big bold badge emblazoned on their covers. For a while, all five weeklies were published concurrently, but eventually WHAM! merged with POW!, TERRIFIC with FANTASTIC, then Pow! with SMASH! and, finally, Fantastic also merged with Smash!, which became the sole surviving Power comic until it was revamped and relaunched (without Marvel reprints) in March of 1969.

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Cheers Kid. I had them all bar Smash. Fantastic I remember clearly, as I'd got Smash and Pow ( and TV Tornado ) that week and had seen the in-house ads for Fantastic, but didn't have enough money for it as well. That Saturday we went to my Granny's as per usual, to find her brother, old Uncle Albert had dropped in to invite the family to tea. He invited me to come shopping with him to Walsall and, as this was something different, I accepted and we caught a big blue bus and went upstairs to the front seats. At Walsall market I was looking at Fantastic #1 on a stall, so Uncle Albert bought it for me. After tea in his new flat, he entertained us all by playing his paddle organ and singing songs, including Yellow Submarine.When I got Terrific #1, I gave the transfer to my Mother to iron on to my young brother's tee shirt. When we lost her last year, my brother, when sorting through her effects, found that she had kept his tiny little tee shirt, so it is now back reunited with its owner!

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From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artiston various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artistandspot illustratoron pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

ForMARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as arestoration artistfor MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

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